Lotus Hot Pot & Grill

Lotus Hot Pot & Grill is an interactive hot pot and Asian barbecue restaurant in Little Saigon Plaza at 6591a N Oak Trafficway, Gladstone, opened by owner Hanh Nguyen.¹²³

• Name: Lotus Hot Pot & Grill
• Type: Hot pot / Asian BBQ restaurant- Owner: Hanh Nguyen ◐¹
• Established: ◐
• Address: 6591a N Oak Trafficway, Gladstone, MO 64118 (Little Saigon Plaza)³²
• Signature: Table-side hot pot with choice of broths; grilled meats and seafood ◐¹
• Status: Open³
• Tier: Tier 1 ◐

Description

Lotus Hot Pot & Grill brings tableside, cook-it-yourself dining to the Northland. Diners pick a broth base — house special, tom yum, fermented kimchi, savory miso, or a Vietnamese-style sour fish broth — then cook thin-sliced meats, seafood, vegetables, tofu, and noodles at the table.¹ The restaurant sits in Little Saigon Plaza on North Oak Trafficway, part of a cluster of Vietnamese and Asian businesses in Gladstone.² Walk-ins are welcome, with reservations recommended for larger parties.¹

Ownership and history

Owner Hanh Nguyen opened Lotus to bring an authentic, interactive style of Asian dining to Kansas City, per local coverage in The Pitch.¹ Founding date is not yet documented from a primary source.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-07-24 · Source: Official social accounts (Facebook / Instagram @lotushotpotkc / TikTok @lotushotpotkc) for format and pricing; community listing site (gotoeat.net — explicitly NOT the official website) and printed-menu photos as cross-check · URL(s): https://www.facebook.com/p/Lotus-Hotpot-Grill-61571663277971/ · https://www.instagram.com/lotushotpotkc/ · https://lotushotpotgrill.gotoeat.net/menu · Confidence: Medium

Format change — all-you-can-eat. Per the official Instagram (announcement post) and Facebook page, Lotus switched to an all-you-can-eat format starting October 27 (2025): unlimited hot pot AND Korean-style BBQ.⁴⁵

• All You Can Eat — Regular Lunch (noon-4:00 PM) — $21.99⁵
• All You Can Eat — Regular Dinner (4:00 PM-close) — $31.99⁵

Hot pot broths (pre-AYCE printed menu, cross-check; consistent with The Pitch’s broth list):¹⁶ house special spicy broth, herbal broth, spicy vegetable broth, mushroom broth, tomato broth, tom yum broth, miso broth, spicy beef broth, sour/spicy fish broth, pickled-cabbage sour fish broth.

Selection categories (printed menu photos, community-hosted cross-check — current AYCE inclusion not itemized):⁶

• Meats — Kobe beef, prime beef, beef brisket, and other sliced meats; BBQ specials incl. bun nuong dac biet.
• Seafood — shrimp and other seafood selections.
• Others — beef tripe, quail eggs, mini pork sausages, Spam, beef tongue, pig stomach, pig heart, pork blood, pork rind, bamboo shoots, dumplings.
• Mushrooms — enoki, seafood mushroom, oyster, shiitake, king trumpet, wood ear, mushroom combo platter.
• Noodles — house special clear noodles, thick noodles, udon, vermicelli, rice cake, sweet potato noodles, egg noodles, fried Chinese sticks (youtiao), ramen, Korean ramen, Sichuan vermicelli, pho noodles.
• Vegetables — napa cabbage, tong ho (chrysanthemum greens), leaf lettuce, okra, baby bok choy, yu choy, water spinach, mustard greens, konjac, potato, lotus root, Chinese spinach, tomatoes, taro root, corn, white bok choy, veggie combo platter.
• Tofu — silken tofu, firm tofu, sponge tofu, fried tofu skin rolls, bean curd sticks, fried tofu, dried tofu, fresh tofu skin, tofu combo platter.
• Appetizers — chicken wings, crab rangoon, egg rolls, spring rolls, seaweed salad, edamame, fried dumplings, mozzarella sticks, fish/shrimp tots, onion rings.
• Kids menu — chicken nuggets & fries, chicken tenders & fries, mac & cheese, fries, sweet potato fries.
• Beer / wine — Boulevard Pale Ale, Boulevard Wheat, Blue Moon, Tsingtao, Singha, Corona, Heineken, domestic lagers; Cupcake, Woodbridge, and Robert Mondavi wines ($2.95-$8.95).⁶

Current official itemized AYCE menu (what is included at each price level, premium add-ons, drink prices post-change). menu_status: partial.

Links

• Website: https://lotushotpotgrill.gotoeat.net/[^web]

Sources

Footnotes

1. The Pitch — “Where culture meets comfort: Kansas City’s hot pot gem.” https://www.thepitchkc.com/where-culture-meets-comfort-kansas-citys-hot-pot-gem/ — asserts: owner Hanh Nguyen, interactive hot pot concept, broth choices, cook-at-table format. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. Lotus Hot Pot & Grill listing site (gotoeat.net). https://lotushotpotgrill.gotoeat.net/ — asserts: name, Gladstone location, Asian BBQ/hot pot concept, hours. NOTE (2026-07-24): the site self-identifies as community-updated, NOT the official website; treat as cross-check only. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Yelp — Lotus Hot Pot & Grill, Gladstone. https://www.yelp.com/biz/lotus-hot-pot-and-grill-gladstone-2 — asserts: active/open listing updated June 2026, Vietnamese/hot pot category, 6591 N Oak Trafficway address. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Lotus Hot Pot & Grill KC — official Instagram @lotushotpotkc. https://www.instagram.com/lotushotpotkc/ (announcement post https://www.instagram.com/p/DQDA1Ovid-_/) — accessed via search 2026-07-24. asserts: “Starting October 27th — ALL YOU CAN EAT is here!… unlimited BBQ & hot pot”; address 6591a N Oak Trafficway. ↩

5. Lotus Hotpot & Grill — official Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/p/Lotus-Hotpot-Grill-61571663277971/ — accessed via search 2026-07-24 (page blocks direct fetch). asserts: “Hotpot and Korean BBQ. Regular Lunch (Noon-4pm): $21.99 / Regular Dinner (4pm-Close): $31.99”; all-you-can-eat kickoff announcement. ↩ ↩² ↩³

6. gotoeat.net community listing + printed-menu photos. https://lotushotpotgrill.gotoeat.net/menu — accessed 2026-07-24. NOT official (site self-identifies as community-updated); used as cross-check only. asserts: broth lineup, a-la-carte category structure and items (pre-AYCE), beer/wine list, phone +1 816-298-7901, hours Mon/Thu/Sun 12:00-8:00 PM, Fri-Sat 12:00-9:00 PM, closed Tue-Wed. ↩ ↩² ↩³